“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.”

“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.”

“When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!”

“Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.”

“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”

“You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”